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1. bir(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: bire
45 quotations in 5 senses
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Naut. A wind or breeze, esp. one favorable for sailing; haven bir at the bak, have a tail wind; abiden the bir, await favorable wind (i.e. circumstances). …

2. dring n.

2 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. Some kind of sling arrangement needed for the yards. …

3. hals n.

50 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The neck; hongen bi the hals, to hang (sb.) with a rope around the neck; fro hals to croupoun, from neck to rump; hals gund [OE heals-gund], a neck tumor; also in asseveration: bi mi hals; (b) the……

4. hank n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A loop, as on the traces of a harness, etc.; (b) naut.?a reef point; ?also, loop [see Sandahl ME Sea Terms 2.42-44]. …

5. lē̆r n.

64 quotations in 3 senses
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The cheek; in pl.: the face; loken under ler, to look down over (one's) cheek, look downward. …

6. rō n.(3)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. In cpds.: ro bende, a rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard [cp. ro-bond n.]; ro line (rop), ?a brace for swinging the yards horizontally; ?a footrope; ?a gasket of some kind. …

7. rō-bō̆nd n.

Additional spellings: robond
3 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A rope attaching the head of a sail to the yard. …

8. shrǒud n.

71 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) A garment, an article of clothing; a priestly vestment; also, an outfit of clothing or armor, a set of clothes; also, (one's) clothing, attire; also fig.; (b) coll. clothing, clothes……

9. skeg(ge n.

Additional spellings: skegge
8 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A projection at the fore or aft end of a keel, a forefoot, skeg; (b) a kind of oats Avena stipiformis; (c) as surname. …

10. stē̆ting n.

15 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A rope used to control and brace the yard; -- also coll.; steting rop; corde steting; steting puli, a pulley for hauling a steting; steting triplex, a steting made of three strands. …

11. stodel n.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A post, stud; also, naut. some kind of upright prop supporting the deck beam of a ship; -- also coll.; (b) a loom or the framework of a loom; (c) ?a band or thread woven in a fabric marking the……

12. stọ̄̆th(e n.

Additional spellings: stothe
23 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) An upright piece of timber used as support in a wall, partition, etc. [quots. ?c1475 and a1500 may belong to sense 4]; stoth nail, nails of some kind used in fastening such timbers; (b) fig. a……

13. suster n.

191 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) A female sibling, a sister or half-sister; suster quene, a sister who is a queen; seinte petres suster, ?a personification of the White Paternoster; trusten to suster no brother, to trust no one……

14. swifte n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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Naut. A piece of light rope passed through the eyelets of a reef band and used to reef a sail, a reef point. …

15. underlǒute n.(2)

1 quotation in 1 sense
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Naut. The lowest part of the stem of a ship fastened or joined to the keel. …

16. wāle n.(4)

5 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) A root of a medicinal plant or herb (b) in combs.: helme wale [cp. OI hjālm-völr], naut. the tiller of a side rudder; liche wale [see liche-wal n.]; litel wale, the little wale or gromwell……

17. warp n.

22 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) The threads, taken collectively, among which the weft of cloth is woven, the warp; also, the foundation threads of a spider’s web; warp threde, yarn for the warp (b) the woof or weft [glossing L ……

18. wē̆t n.

72 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water (b) a naturally occurring body of water,……

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